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Papal ecology: Protecting all God’s creatures, respecting God’s plan
The Catholic Church supports the efforts of scientists to study the causes and effects of climate change and insists governments and businesses must get serious about specific commitments for protecting the environment.
Immigrant bishop, builder, martyr: Telling the story of Blessed Budka
More than a century after he first set foot in North America, the story of a little-known Canadian blessed and martyr of the Soviet regime is starting to come out of the shadows.
Pope’s schedule for Holy Week and Easter
Here is Pope Francis' schedule for Holy Week and Easter
Tunisia archbishop appeals for Western Catholic support
The head of Tunisia's Catholic Church urged Western Catholics not to abandon his country despite fears of further Islamist violence after a bloody terrorist attack on tourists in the famed Bardo National Museum in its capital.
Militias protect South Sudan farmers in church-sponsored farm projects
Much of the world knows there's a war in South Sudan, a bloody feud between two rival politicians and their respective ethnic groups.
Philippine lawmakers pledge to block proposed divorce law
"The proposal to legalize divorce will not pass under my watch," said House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., reported the Asian Catholic news portal ucanews.com.
Catholic schools oppose tax proposal they say threatens their survival
As part of a comprehensive reform of its tax structure, the Puerto Rican government proposes replacing the current sales tax of 7 percent with a value-added system that would amount to a 16 percent tax, which Catholic school officials say would hurt Catholic education particularly, and private education generally, when applied to tuition, lunches, uniforms and textbooks.
English cardinal urges debate on family synod to stay out of the press
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster urged priests to end debating the upcoming synod on the family in the press after more than 450 priests published a letter calling on the Catholic Church to retain the prohibition on divorced and remarried Catholics receiving holy Communion.
Masked gunmen fire on police guarding Catholic church in Pakistan
Two passersby were injured in the crossfire, but no other injuries were reported.
Pope’s visit to Turin will highlight shroud, young people, marginalized
The papal visit June 21-22 also will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of St. John Bosco, a 19th-century priest from the Turin region who was a pioneer in vocational education, worked with poor and abandoned children and founded the Salesians, a religious order specializing in youth work.